Chapter 8 Mangement
idea incubator
organizational program that provides a safe harbor where employees can generate and develop ideas without interference from company bureaucracy or politics
unfreezing
organizations using surveys to determine how employees would feel about a change
need culture change
people throughout company need to become better at working in teams
Crowdsourcing
An open-innovation new-product idea program.
training
all mangers need to know how to interact with all different kinds of people
horizontal linkage model
Means that several departments, such as marketing, research, and manufacturing, work closely together to develop new products.
open innovation
extend the search for and commercialization of innovative ideas beyond the boundaries of the organization
bottom-up approach
giving everyone a month off from their regular duties to come up with creative ideas for new products and services
training
help certain employees improve a given skill or set of skills
widely shared
in large group intervention organization development model, inofrmation is:
Ambidextrous Approach
incorporating structures and processes that are appropriate creatively and systematically
Disruptive Innovation
innovations in products, services, or processes that radically change competition in an industry
rapid transformation
large-group intervention organizational development leads to:
new-venture fund
provides financial resources from which individuals or teams can draw to develop new ideas, products, or businesses
skunkworks
separate, informal, highly autonomous and often secretive group focusing on breakthrough ideas
Organizational Change
the adoption of a new idea or behavior by an organization
Innovation by acquisition
buying start-up companies to get innovative products and services, and usually the talent that created them
organizational development
the company's main product is becoming obsolete and it's last two efforts failed
FAST
time frame for large group intervention organizational debelopment
specific problem or group
traditional organizational development model applies to:
Force Field Analysis
consider problems and oppurtunities that drive change and the factors that restrain change
external coordination
continuously seeks new ideas from customers and from looks for ways to use new technologies